From leading classes to serving as artists-in-residence, SAIC alumni are collaborating with area residents at Homan Square to develop creative solutions to local issues. This past September, SAIC hosted an open house at its new satellite classroom in Nichols Tower at Homan Square, on Chicago’s West Side.

The Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle—or the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris—recently announced a forthcoming collaboration with SAIC alum Claudia Navas (BFA 1997). Navas is a trilingual artist who graduated from college in Bogota, Colombia before matriculating to SAIC in the 1990s and studying in France.

University of Alaska Southwest has chosen Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories, edited by SAIC faculty member in the Liberal Arts department and Director of Academic Affairs for Diversity and Inclusion Christina Gomez, as the center of its One Book, One Campus program.

SAIC's Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs, Felice Dublon, recently received the award for Outstanding Performance as a Senior Student Affairs Officer at the 2016 Annual NASPA Regional Conference.

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For 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program consistently ranking among the top programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.